Dialogue and linking between TEI and other semantic models

The deep dialogue TEI started with other semantic models – i.e. CIDOCCRM and FRBR/FRBR (OO) has two aims: the data and documents interchange and the improvement of the editors possibilities to formally declare hermeneutical positions. The TEI schema provides most of the elements/attributes (and classes) useful to describe interpretation instances, while further schemas, as well as other value vocabularies and metadata element sets, are supposed to enhance some potentialities of the model itself. On one hand, additional schemas could contribute to perfect the scope of some TEI elements, while on the other, the existing ontologies could improve the interpretation effectiveness. Therefore, this panel is aimed at introducing three different approaches to document representation, where TEI may draw some hints from other models. We first present the contribute of EAC (Encoded Archival Context) to extend people’s description, starting from the archival approach to the context, here intended as the key element to define individual’s roles and functions. Then we considered the dialogue between TEI and the existing ontologies, with particular attention to geographic data. Finally, thanks to the ‘semantic lenses’ employed as an exploratory tool for annotated documents, we started up the relationship between TEI and specific ontologies related to semantic publishing. The aforementioned approaches adopt a linked data perspective, adding the TEI element with @ref and URI and adopting the RDF model for assertions. By exposing TEI annotations as data sets, we could improve both the schema and the documents interchange with other exiting data sets, enhancing the information retrieval possibilities. Digital editions based on TEI could start a dialogue with the WWW resources in a global vision of heritage, here intended as cultural data connection, where digital editions, acting like a sort of interlink between literary texts, archival documents and books, play a crucial role in the preservation of cultural memory.